President Biden?
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As Great Palast wrote: The best democracy that money can buy
Breaking a 175 year tradition, Scientific American journal endorse Biden for president.
In that aspect, I will support L Bird ideas. Bourgeoise scientists are not impartial, they also support the ideas of the ruling class
A Democratic President, a Democratic Senate, a Democratic House of Representatives – no reversal of the Trump tax cuts to the wealthy. In fact, proposals for even more tax cut incentives.
Environmentalists say vote for Biden (despite the Democratic Party’s failure to support the Green New Deal).
They blame the Green Party dividing the vote for Republican victories
That is false. Without the electoral college the majority of voters would have elected al gore and Hillary Clinton In the USA they are looking for external pretext instead of looking for the real cause. The electoral college is a vestige of the slavery system and dnc is a center of conspirators who blocked Bernie sanders twice The USA has the most backward election system
Reformist’s dilemma. If you want a reform (or want to stop an existing reform being taken away) what do you do: vote for party that stands for it with no chance of being able to implement it or for a politician who might just take a few tentative steps towards it? In this case what seems to have made the 170 ( never heard of any of them) desert the Green Party is less the aim of getting their Green New Deal implemented than the risk of existing environmental reforms being rescinded.
Anyway of course the Green New Deal is a pipe dream. It’s just Green Keynesianism and experience has shown that no kind of government spending can change the way capitalism works.
Incidentally, I take it that the “ranked choice” election system that the Green Party wants is what we over here call the Alternative Vote where you express your preference for the candidates by voting 1,2,3 etc and the bottom preferences are redistributed until one candidate gets to 50% + 1 of the votes cast (which is in fact the fairest system when choosing a single person).
I am reminded of how Mark Thatcher made his money from the Arab nations by tagging along with his mum’s trade and diplomatic delegations.
The same nepotism demonstrated by Hunter Biden business activities
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/sep/23/hunter-biden-ukraine-problematic-republican-report
The proponents of vote for the lesser evil state their case
https://www.commondreams.org/views/2020/09/23/open-letter-dump-trump-then-battle-biden
“…Not voting for Biden in swing states won’t bring on a revolution. Not voting for Biden in swing states will not make anyone the slightest bit more progressive, radical, or revolutionary. Not voting for Biden in swing states will not grow or solidify the ranks of opposition. But not voting for Biden in swing states risks immeasurably enlarging the obstacles that opposition will thereafter face.
So, it comes down to this. Dump Trump, Then Battle Biden. Vote for Biden at least in swing states—and urge others to do so as well. And then get on with building grassroots movements for ongoing fundamental change…”
And from the environmentalists
“…Joe Biden and Kamala Harris haven’t pledged to move that quickly, but their climate plan is the farthest-reaching of any presidential ticket in history. More to the point, we can pressure them to go farther and faster…”
Some idiots continue using the expression far left when that thing does not exist in the USA and both political parties of the capitalists class are right-wingers. They have not done their homework properly
The Republican Party is becoming a Keynesian party when they have spent trillions of dollars to save the capitalist class, the last bailout was the robbery of the century
A moment of honesty from Biden?
“I beat the socialist,” Biden said in a local news interview in Wisconsin. “That’s how I got elected. That’s how I got the nomination. Do I look like a socialist? Look at my career — my whole career. I am not a socialist.”
Last month he explained, “You know me. You know my heart. You know my story. Ask yourself: Do I look like a radical socialist with a soft spot for rioters? Really? I want a safe America.”
And to think the Left expect concessions from a President Biden
More on “democracy in America” (from today’s Times of London:
”Michael Bloomberg has helped pay the fines of 42,000 convicted criminals in Florida to enable them to take part in the US election as tightening polls put President Trump in the lead among those likely to vote there (…)
”Florida’s lifetime voting ban on 1.5 million adults convicted of felonies — the more serious criminal offences — was overturned in a referendum in 2018 but Ron DeSantis, the Republican governor, ruled that sentences must be fully discharged, including all fines and fees, before a return to the electoral roll. Those fines relate to money owed by the criminal to the court system. Mr DeSantis’s ruling effectively disfranchised 775,000 people, including many African-Americans, who largely vote Democrat.”
An undemocratic law denies 1.5 million people who in countries practising universal adult suffrage would have the vote. A referendum overturns this. A Governor, representing one political party, find a technicality to keep 775,000 disfranchised to benefit his party. A billionaire, representing a rival political party, then pays for them to get the vote so as to benefit his party.
Imagine if that went on in a country whose government the US opposes. Venezuela for example. The President and Secretary of State wouldn’t hold back on denouncing it as a travesty of democracy. As if course it is.
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